I predict that when people look back on the COVID period in 50 or 100 years (assuming we're not all killed in a nuclear war most of the media seems intent on starting) they will struggle to understand how we could have been so STUPID.
There had been plenty dark eras throughout human history, probably too many to mention; yet our Republic became the most powerful, the most educated, the richest and fair. As the times when some purchased other humans, the era changed to allow those of us who chose to work to get as far ahead as far their goals brought us. (Sorry... I'm "deplorably" optimistic)
Indeed, lugubrious times; but there is always light at the end of every tunnel. When I read comments here, and other threads, I see so many of us shortening the way to the light. Dark entities historically and inevitably succumb into their darkness.
Often times the false narrative carries through history. Many on the Left still refuse to believe a communist killed JFK and prefer the theory a racist Texan did it.
Not if the current degree seekers great great grandchildren are in charge... covid? Never happened son, don't be a critical thinker, be like President Xi IV.
We just have to hope some "truth in history" remains. Since my third grader is bringing home assignments that say "George Washington was bad etc." I hope some truth remains about our Covid response. Alex are you still working on that archive?!
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both." ---Frederick Douglass
Talking? I’m divorced but some advice is helpful. If no talking then… texting? Charades? Instagram with the appropriate frowns, smiley or concerny face? 😏
Oh.. you mean the how it happened part. Well yes that is depressing.
Wow! The COVID Kool Aid is far more powerful than I knew. Meanwhile in China, they are locking down HARD again, as a result oil fell below $100. Don't think for a minute the BIden Administration is not now thinking "what a great idea, we lock down again and gas prices go down. We stay in control (relevant in their minds) and get credit for cheaper gas! A win win!!"
As evil as all the covid containment policies have been, I must admit during the first round of lockdowns when gas was super cheap I had a lot of fun speeding around the metropolis-turned-ghost-town. It was weird and surreal. Took my longboard on downtown streets that would usually be packed. I couldn't believe more people weren't doing it.
Me too! It was the best! No traffic...no cars on Austin roads. We had card game happy hours every single day after work with neighbors because we were all at home. Well....the neighbors who prioritized fun over fear!
Lots of nice people named Karen had their name ruined. I'd rather say "Kapo," or "rat fink." These are more accurate descriptions of fellow citizens or prisoners who brown nose tyrants.
Yesterday was the last day on the job for outgoing NYC Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi. Today, Dr. Ashwin Vasan takes over. His first recommendation should be to lift the private employer vaccine mandate.
At one point Galileo was an outcast, as was DaVinci... guess it depends on who controls the narrative more than the science.
To refute science, scientists developed the "scientific method" or by definition "The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation.
Why are people being outcasted in society for wanting to carefully observe and apply rigorous skepticism? That is my biggest issue with the vaccines. Not to mention to unabashed "do as I say, not as I do, for most politicians".
We made our bed with these politicians and now we cannot get rid of the cesspool without tearing down the infrastructure. These stories all make me sad but determined.
Greed begets more greed. The downgrade of western medicine:
“The Flexner Report (which discredited all forms of medicine except allopathy) was the tool by which John D. Rockefeller used the AMA to dominate Western Medicine with Big Pharma drugs”
With institution of the American Medical Association, physicians were no longer allowed to prescribe natural remedies. Their medical licenses were threatened or revoked for prescribing anything other than pharmaceutical drugs. There is big money in big Pharma. And the government has its hands all in it. Now, it seems, doctors are only taught in medical school to be drug pushers.
Kyrie Irving isn’t the only person in the world who faces any sanction at Barclays Center for refusing to take an mRNA shot.
I haven’t been able to work at any NYC sports venue, where I’ve previous worked as a freelance audio mixer for television broadcasts, since December. I was terminated by MSG Network on July 12, 2021 (which I’ve worked for since 1998) while I was attempting to work out an exemption, while I was being treated for recurrent cancer with distant metastasis. They didn’t notify me that I was terminated. I realized it when I wasn’t asked to work any 2021-22 NHL dates when they were released in late summer 2021. This summary termination was rationalized by MSG’s HR senior director Faye Mclaughlin Legares (she/her/hers) with a 5 word explanation: “accommodation would pose direct threat” which is a strange claim given I had worked for them unvaxxed during ‘the raging pandemic’ in the same places and conditions as exist in the workplace after my termination date, and there was no talk of me being a threat to anyone then.
I was still working for YES network on Nets games at the Barclays Center and Yankees games at Yankees stadium, however. I was asked to mix game 5 of the Nets Celtics series at the Barclays Center on June 1, 2021 which was my 2nd job back after 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, and a tall order given the condition I was in. I was asked to mix the subway series for YES shortly afterwards; another tall order, but I was happy to do it being quite bored from sitting home 10 of the previous 18 months (5 months due to sports venues being locked down and 5 months for full time cancer treatment).
When the Nets 2021-22 season was winding up I was asked to work media day at Barclays Center. I asked if the Barclays center would consider a vax exemption. I was told no, so I’ve not been able to work at Barclays since fall 2021 even after YES Network later granted me a medical exemption. Last week I was told that I can’t work at Yankees stadium after working there through ‘the raging pandemic.’
I still haven’t even tested positive yet, 3 winters into ‘the raging pandemic’ while many of my fully vaxxed colleagues have had covid, some multiple times. Pandemia has driven some of them insane. Some have started whisper campaigns and tried to drive me out of the workplace while telling me “I love you” and that I should get vaxxed because, “It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” This was happening in places that had no vaccine policy in place under employers who wanted me to be there despite my vax status. The branch covidians were emboldened to make up their own policy and enforce it ruthlessly.
Union reps I’ve asked for help (who have no medical training whatever) have advised me to get vaxxed. They’ve casually dismissed my prior adverse reaction to flu vaccine and MMR booster and history of reactions to other medications and my religious objections. One has repeatedly called me a moron, conspiracy theorist etc. Another told me to “fuck off.”
For me, as the theatre of lifting of covid restrictions rolls out, things are only getting much worse. The few people who were inclined to help me seem to be growing tired of the extra work and stress involved with getting an unvaxxed pariah onto a job site. A crewing outfit with ambitions to control the entire industry, Chicago based Program Productions Incorporated is evidently attempting to make every job in the country vaxxed-and-boosted only, even in Florida where if I understand correctly, vax mandates are illegal. This company has replaced me on jobs (which require a high degree of technical training and ability) with warm bodies whose only qualification is that they’ve taken a vax that doesn’t prevent disease, where it has been all hands on deck for everyone else on the job to carry their workload to barely get a show on the air.
I could fill a book with other details not appropriate for a substack comment. Maybe I will. The vax mafia and their accomplices in the sports broadcast industry are kinda forcing me into another line of work.
Your story reads like an excerpt of Schindler’s List and is sickening. These people are tyrants who take glee in controlling and destroying other people and I no longer believe they think it’s about public safety. It’s become an irrational cult.
I wish you luck with both your health and your career.
As many of the “conspiracy theories” come true, more of these people are crawling under rocks hoping we all forget. Personally, I have friend and family members who rooted for this evil. Although exhausting, I’m committed to never letting them forget.
Horrible. Clearly, there are people opportunistically using this as a punitive measure against others whose religion, morality, philosophy they hate. There will be justice, the only question is when. Thank you for the supportive words
Wow, this a such a revealing tale of corporate hijacking (via covid) of a field in order to exclude independent professionals — your story is worth telling/writing. (I wish some men’s journal would have to guts to do so when the dust settles.) Your treatment through this as a cancer patient has been outrageous! Prayers for your health!
I am so so sorry for everything you are going through. This is heartbreaking and why ALL of us should keep fighting and tow the line. I sincerely hope that a wonderful and uplifting break comes your way at all levels very soon. 🙏❤️
God bless you and thank you for the kind reply. It seems to me that this theatre of ‘relaxing’ covid restrictions is diffusing a lot of the momentum that’s building in opposition to them. The same can be said of 24-7 Ukraine coverage. Thank God there are people who are committed to this fight
I guess nobody has learned there Lesson and have not Banned Anthony Fauci AKA the Elf on the shelf from all Public Platforms. Anyone hear from Twitter Google or Facebook to why he is still the source of absolute wrong information to date.
Ahh , how the mighty (Fauci) has fallen. Local podcasts are certainly not as prestigious as national TV shows. Guess he didn't go to another country that doesn't have extradiction with the US or did he? Who knows?
If Mayor Adams buckles, letting Kylie Irving play ball in Bklyn, he’s going to have to buckle on his moronic NYC vaccine mandate for Cops, Fireman, and Teachers as well. Unlike Kylie Irving those folks are barely getting by financially on a good day. Now they’re being put on “unpaid leave” for refusing the jab. At this point the jab has nothing to do with health and everything to do with compliance.
What’s happening to Kyrie is irrational and unfair, but what’s happening to ‘front line workers’ who worked through ‘the raging pandemic’ is cruelty. As you point out, they’re far from wealthy. They can’t collect on the unemployment and medicaid they’ve paid into and should be there for them.
If I understand right, Kyrie is at least partially motivated to bring attention to these people and others, lower wage workers at the Barclays Center who object to these “vaccines.” If this is true, he deserves a lot of respect for this sacrifice. It’s telling that so few people have recognized this virtue and many have mocked him for it.
This speaks to Kyrie's character. What was that expression, you can tell a lot about a person's character by how he treats others that can be of no use to him (say a waitress/waiter).
One church in my area told its parishioners rather than give money in the collection basket to give it to a deserving person who was hurting due to the covid restrictions. Perhaps some churches in NY/NYC area could do this. Small compensation but every bit helps.
This is one of your finest pieces, Alex! Superb summary of the stupidity with just enough snark, not too much, to make it fun reading!
Agreed, this was a good one! I was smile smirking as I read every sentence. Will we get analysis on the flat Earth theory though?
Ditto!
Brilliant! Please don’t stop. Salt their fields!
Here, here! This is Greenwald territory. Super well done, Alex!
Sorry, hear, hear. Doh!
I predict that when people look back on the COVID period in 50 or 100 years (assuming we're not all killed in a nuclear war most of the media seems intent on starting) they will struggle to understand how we could have been so STUPID.
Will they?
“History” is determined by whoever gets to write it.
There is always at least one honest Whomever hiding in the History mixing bowl.
Thank you for using "Whomever" correctly. As a former teacher of grammar, I have many cringe moments reading comments. It is a blessing and a curse.
Sanity is a savvy warrior. Sanity (REASON) survives and triumph over absurdities and stupidity.
I wish I could agree with you as I watch them tear down statues of Abe Lincoln & Teddy Roosevelt.
There had been plenty dark eras throughout human history, probably too many to mention; yet our Republic became the most powerful, the most educated, the richest and fair. As the times when some purchased other humans, the era changed to allow those of us who chose to work to get as far ahead as far their goals brought us. (Sorry... I'm "deplorably" optimistic)
Never apologize for being an optimist.
I’m just a cynic who’s read too many history books to see how Republics end. And, I’m afraid we are winding down and no one is stopping it.
Indeed, lugubrious times; but there is always light at the end of every tunnel. When I read comments here, and other threads, I see so many of us shortening the way to the light. Dark entities historically and inevitably succumb into their darkness.
Often times the false narrative carries through history. Many on the Left still refuse to believe a communist killed JFK and prefer the theory a racist Texan did it.
You’re right about the carryover. People like to extend their current narrative belief into the past, rewriting history if necessary.
So true. Even Abe Lincoln has warts that shouldn’t be hidden but he’s been made into a super idol.
Lincoln was THE MAN. Don’t even try to go there.
Over 600,000 men brutally killed. We shouldn't go there? ok.
Because of a civil
war that ended with the America we live in today. Lincoln wasn't out there with a bat.
That will be the good version, the version where the WHO doesn’t create the health dictatorship they want in place by 2024.
Not if the current degree seekers great great grandchildren are in charge... covid? Never happened son, don't be a critical thinker, be like President Xi IV.
I’ve been struggling to understand how we could be so stupid since March 2020 and still can’t add it up
Easily with censorship and msm propaganda brought to us by the trusted news initiative .
We are not stupid. We are maligned, coerced, marginalized, misrepresented, and mandated.
We just have to hope some "truth in history" remains. Since my third grader is bringing home assignments that say "George Washington was bad etc." I hope some truth remains about our Covid response. Alex are you still working on that archive?!
We are living the movie "Idiocracy" ... The dumbing down of America is astonishing.
Mencken nailed it years ago:
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
If only the press still had writers like this
America has been dumbing down for years but the skids have been greased during Covid no doubt.
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both." ---Frederick Douglass
Yep. My wife and I talk about it all the time, especially the "how it happened" part.
Schools. Or as Rush called them “Screwels”.
You might want to stop doing that--for the sake of your marriage & your sanity.
Talking? I’m divorced but some advice is helpful. If no talking then… texting? Charades? Instagram with the appropriate frowns, smiley or concerny face? 😏
Oh.. you mean the how it happened part. Well yes that is depressing.
Yep. Critical thinking has left the building.
I am wearing my ‘Not Sure and Camacho in 2016’ tee shirt today so this is not only spot on but relevant to me personally…
Great movie, "Idiocracy" and becoming more real each day. It has what plants crave.
I also have a Brawndo tee shirt. Maybe I am an idiot…
No, you are not an idiot.
Wow! The COVID Kool Aid is far more powerful than I knew. Meanwhile in China, they are locking down HARD again, as a result oil fell below $100. Don't think for a minute the BIden Administration is not now thinking "what a great idea, we lock down again and gas prices go down. We stay in control (relevant in their minds) and get credit for cheaper gas! A win win!!"
I never locked down and I never will lock down.
As evil as all the covid containment policies have been, I must admit during the first round of lockdowns when gas was super cheap I had a lot of fun speeding around the metropolis-turned-ghost-town. It was weird and surreal. Took my longboard on downtown streets that would usually be packed. I couldn't believe more people weren't doing it.
Me too! It was the best! No traffic...no cars on Austin roads. We had card game happy hours every single day after work with neighbors because we were all at home. Well....the neighbors who prioritized fun over fear!
Did ya’ll ever play Euchre? Really fun partners game.
Nobody plays cards in L.A.
2 weeks no driving- flatten the gas prices...
We will always have sheeple and the "Karens".
Lots of nice people named Karen had their name ruined. I'd rather say "Kapo," or "rat fink." These are more accurate descriptions of fellow citizens or prisoners who brown nose tyrants.
Duly noted.
The "Karens" are reincarnated Puritans.
…if you mean the “leftest High School AP US History” cardboard version of “Puritans” perhaps
So many unanswered questions here. But let me take a crack at answering the most obvious ...
Yes, I believe LeBron is as big a douche as he seems.
Bravo.
(And "douche" may be the most under-used but most appropriate word.)
He is more of an enema…
Nah…enemas usually make you feel “better”.
Yesterday was the last day on the job for outgoing NYC Health Commissioner Dr. David Chokshi. Today, Dr. Ashwin Vasan takes over. His first recommendation should be to lift the private employer vaccine mandate.
Does anybody have his email? We need to forward this piece to him. #savenewyork
I don’t mind their “recommendations”.
It’s the “mandates” that piss me off.
At one point Galileo was an outcast, as was DaVinci... guess it depends on who controls the narrative more than the science.
To refute science, scientists developed the "scientific method" or by definition "The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation.
Why are people being outcasted in society for wanting to carefully observe and apply rigorous skepticism? That is my biggest issue with the vaccines. Not to mention to unabashed "do as I say, not as I do, for most politicians".
We made our bed with these politicians and now we cannot get rid of the cesspool without tearing down the infrastructure. These stories all make me sad but determined.
Greed begets more greed. The downgrade of western medicine:
“The Flexner Report (which discredited all forms of medicine except allopathy) was the tool by which John D. Rockefeller used the AMA to dominate Western Medicine with Big Pharma drugs”
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/john-d-rockefeller-used-ama-take-western-medicine/
With institution of the American Medical Association, physicians were no longer allowed to prescribe natural remedies. Their medical licenses were threatened or revoked for prescribing anything other than pharmaceutical drugs. There is big money in big Pharma. And the government has its hands all in it. Now, it seems, doctors are only taught in medical school to be drug pushers.
😰😰😰
As much as LeBron has hurt the NBA Kyrie is saving it. Durant should have held on to Kyries shirt tale and not apologized
LeBron is a massive douche, but even His Doucheness tweeted support for Kyrie.
How to make "follow the science" great again... ACTUALLY follow the science.
Fauci and Collins Rabbits foot science!
If they were to follow the science, he should be allowed to play, but every player on the court can’t come within 6 feet of him..
Kyrie Irving isn’t the only person in the world who faces any sanction at Barclays Center for refusing to take an mRNA shot.
I haven’t been able to work at any NYC sports venue, where I’ve previous worked as a freelance audio mixer for television broadcasts, since December. I was terminated by MSG Network on July 12, 2021 (which I’ve worked for since 1998) while I was attempting to work out an exemption, while I was being treated for recurrent cancer with distant metastasis. They didn’t notify me that I was terminated. I realized it when I wasn’t asked to work any 2021-22 NHL dates when they were released in late summer 2021. This summary termination was rationalized by MSG’s HR senior director Faye Mclaughlin Legares (she/her/hers) with a 5 word explanation: “accommodation would pose direct threat” which is a strange claim given I had worked for them unvaxxed during ‘the raging pandemic’ in the same places and conditions as exist in the workplace after my termination date, and there was no talk of me being a threat to anyone then.
I was still working for YES network on Nets games at the Barclays Center and Yankees games at Yankees stadium, however. I was asked to mix game 5 of the Nets Celtics series at the Barclays Center on June 1, 2021 which was my 2nd job back after 4 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy, and a tall order given the condition I was in. I was asked to mix the subway series for YES shortly afterwards; another tall order, but I was happy to do it being quite bored from sitting home 10 of the previous 18 months (5 months due to sports venues being locked down and 5 months for full time cancer treatment).
When the Nets 2021-22 season was winding up I was asked to work media day at Barclays Center. I asked if the Barclays center would consider a vax exemption. I was told no, so I’ve not been able to work at Barclays since fall 2021 even after YES Network later granted me a medical exemption. Last week I was told that I can’t work at Yankees stadium after working there through ‘the raging pandemic.’
I still haven’t even tested positive yet, 3 winters into ‘the raging pandemic’ while many of my fully vaxxed colleagues have had covid, some multiple times. Pandemia has driven some of them insane. Some have started whisper campaigns and tried to drive me out of the workplace while telling me “I love you” and that I should get vaxxed because, “It’s a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” This was happening in places that had no vaccine policy in place under employers who wanted me to be there despite my vax status. The branch covidians were emboldened to make up their own policy and enforce it ruthlessly.
Union reps I’ve asked for help (who have no medical training whatever) have advised me to get vaxxed. They’ve casually dismissed my prior adverse reaction to flu vaccine and MMR booster and history of reactions to other medications and my religious objections. One has repeatedly called me a moron, conspiracy theorist etc. Another told me to “fuck off.”
For me, as the theatre of lifting of covid restrictions rolls out, things are only getting much worse. The few people who were inclined to help me seem to be growing tired of the extra work and stress involved with getting an unvaxxed pariah onto a job site. A crewing outfit with ambitions to control the entire industry, Chicago based Program Productions Incorporated is evidently attempting to make every job in the country vaxxed-and-boosted only, even in Florida where if I understand correctly, vax mandates are illegal. This company has replaced me on jobs (which require a high degree of technical training and ability) with warm bodies whose only qualification is that they’ve taken a vax that doesn’t prevent disease, where it has been all hands on deck for everyone else on the job to carry their workload to barely get a show on the air.
I could fill a book with other details not appropriate for a substack comment. Maybe I will. The vax mafia and their accomplices in the sports broadcast industry are kinda forcing me into another line of work.
Your story reads like an excerpt of Schindler’s List and is sickening. These people are tyrants who take glee in controlling and destroying other people and I no longer believe they think it’s about public safety. It’s become an irrational cult.
I wish you luck with both your health and your career.
Thank you and God bless you. There are some kind and rational people. They’ve been intimidated and shouted down, thus far. Maybe the tide is turning
As many of the “conspiracy theories” come true, more of these people are crawling under rocks hoping we all forget. Personally, I have friend and family members who rooted for this evil. Although exhausting, I’m committed to never letting them forget.
Hang in there.
I’m sorry that yours is one of the many families that have been senselessly divided by this. I hope it can be healed
Horrible. Clearly, there are people opportunistically using this as a punitive measure against others whose religion, morality, philosophy they hate. There will be justice, the only question is when. Thank you for the supportive words
Wow, this a such a revealing tale of corporate hijacking (via covid) of a field in order to exclude independent professionals — your story is worth telling/writing. (I wish some men’s journal would have to guts to do so when the dust settles.) Your treatment through this as a cancer patient has been outrageous! Prayers for your health!
God bless you. Thank you for the supportive words and prayers!
I am so so sorry for everything you are going through. This is heartbreaking and why ALL of us should keep fighting and tow the line. I sincerely hope that a wonderful and uplifting break comes your way at all levels very soon. 🙏❤️
God bless you and thank you for the kind reply. It seems to me that this theatre of ‘relaxing’ covid restrictions is diffusing a lot of the momentum that’s building in opposition to them. The same can be said of 24-7 Ukraine coverage. Thank God there are people who are committed to this fight
Oh my God! This is just fucking awful. These ghouls never stop with their covidiocy.
This is the best piece I’ve ever read on the absurdities of the so called ‘vax’ mandate. Thank you for the laugh this morning Alex.
Perfectly stated AB!
Does anyone know where the Elf on the shelf is ? I hope that he is collecting dust right now.
You can find him spouting bureaucratic nonsense on various local podcasts and YouTube channels.
I guess nobody has learned there Lesson and have not Banned Anthony Fauci AKA the Elf on the shelf from all Public Platforms. Anyone hear from Twitter Google or Facebook to why he is still the source of absolute wrong information to date.
Ahh , how the mighty (Fauci) has fallen. Local podcasts are certainly not as prestigious as national TV shows. Guess he didn't go to another country that doesn't have extradiction with the US or did he? Who knows?
https://www.wnd.com/2022/03/fauci-not-sure-many-covid-shots-will-needed/
I just saw a comment from him stating that we will all need another booster. 😂
If Mayor Adams buckles, letting Kylie Irving play ball in Bklyn, he’s going to have to buckle on his moronic NYC vaccine mandate for Cops, Fireman, and Teachers as well. Unlike Kylie Irving those folks are barely getting by financially on a good day. Now they’re being put on “unpaid leave” for refusing the jab. At this point the jab has nothing to do with health and everything to do with compliance.
What’s happening to Kyrie is irrational and unfair, but what’s happening to ‘front line workers’ who worked through ‘the raging pandemic’ is cruelty. As you point out, they’re far from wealthy. They can’t collect on the unemployment and medicaid they’ve paid into and should be there for them.
If I understand right, Kyrie is at least partially motivated to bring attention to these people and others, lower wage workers at the Barclays Center who object to these “vaccines.” If this is true, he deserves a lot of respect for this sacrifice. It’s telling that so few people have recognized this virtue and many have mocked him for it.
This speaks to Kyrie's character. What was that expression, you can tell a lot about a person's character by how he treats others that can be of no use to him (say a waitress/waiter).
100%
One church in my area told its parishioners rather than give money in the collection basket to give it to a deserving person who was hurting due to the covid restrictions. Perhaps some churches in NY/NYC area could do this. Small compensation but every bit helps.
We're deep into lala land.
https://etana.substack.com/p/the-dose-makes-the-poison
Good info.